Second-Generation Memory and Contemporary Children''s Literature - Ghost Images

Zusatztext Winner of the Children's Literature Association Book Award Informationen zum Autor Anastasia M. Ulanowicz is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Florida, US. Klappentext This book explores the relationship between contemporary children's literature and second-generation memory, a device characterized by vicarious, rather than direct, experience of the past. Ulanowicz visits authors such as Blume, Lowery, and Zlata Filipovi¿ to address second-generation memory's implications for children's literature, trauma and memory studies, and Holocaust studies. Zusammenfassung This book explores the relationship between contemporary children’s literature and second-generation memory, a device characterized by vicarious, rather than direct, experience of the past. Ulanowicz visits authors such as Blume, Lowery, and Zlata Filipovic to address second-generation memory’s implications for children’s literature, trauma and memory studies, and Holocaust studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Ghost Image 1. "Seeing Beyond": Memory, Forgetting, and Ethics in Lois Lowry’s The Giver 2. Sitting Shivah: Mourning and Performance in Judy Blume’s Starring Sally J Freedman as Herself 3. Anne Frank’s "Own True Heir": Intertextuality and the Intergenerational in Zlata’s Diary 4. "The Past is a Foreign Country": The Individual, Diaspora, and Nation in Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch’s The Hunger 5. "Remember, Remember, the Eleventh of September": Mordecai Gerstein’s The Man Who Walked Between the Towers and Second-Generation Memory After September 11

Product details

• Authors: Anastasia Ulanowicz, Ulanowicz Anastasia
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.03.2013
• EAN: 9780415628259
• ISBN: 978-0-415-62825-9
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Children's Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; History, Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, Humanities, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Children's & teenage literature studies, Armed Conflict, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general